VFX Vlog #11 - Premiere After Effects Workflow + 3D Camera Tracker

VFX Vlog #11 - Premiere After Effects Workflow + 3D Camera Tracker

Ever wondered how best to integrate your workflow between Adobe Premiere and After Effects? Having issues using the 3D Camera Tracker in After Effects? Then this VFX Vlog is for you!

———- Adobe Premiere and After Effects Workflow Integration ———-

I will first show you ho you can integrate your workflow between Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects. There are multiple options and the two main ones I like to use are:

1. Select a clip in Adobe Premiere and select ‘Replace with After Effects composition’. This will create a new After Effects project and replace the clip in Premiere with it. You can then edit the clip in Adobe After Effects and any changes you save will immediately be reflected in your Premiere Project.
What’s even cooler is that when you export your video from Premiere, the embedded After Effects composition will automatically be rendered out into your final project.

2. Another way to work between the two programs is to select a range of clips in Adobe Premiere and copy them. Then go over into After Effects, create a new composition and simply paste the clips into it. The clips will be copied from Premiere into After Effects in their correct order and with the correct edits.
You can then apply whatever effects you want onto the clips, export the composition and re-import it into Premiere for inclusion in your project.

Which option I choose depends on the complexity of the effect. For simple effects, I like to use the ‘Replace with After Effects composition’ option, for anything more complex I much rather work in After Effects exclusively, then export the final clip and use it back in Adobe Premiere.

———- Common Issues with the 3D Camera Tracker in Adobe After Effects ———-

In the second part of the vlog I will discuss some common issues that people tend to run into when using the 3D Camera Tracker in After Effects. These issues include

1. Unable to solve camera.
This usually occurs due to the camera’s movement being too fast for the tracker or the shot is too dark or to blurry for the tracker to find strong visual elements to track correctly.

2. No depth from a tripod pan solve.
The 3D Camera Tracker derives depth information from how fast the visual elements move in relation to one another. If you shot your clip with your camera on a tripod or with little movement other than a simple panning motion, the tracker will not be able to figure out how far the elements in your clip are from one another. This is usually not a problem though since the shot is fairly ‘flat’ and any elements you place in your tracked scene should follow the camera’s movement correctly.

3. Finally I show you a properly 3D tracked scene, what to watch out for and all the cool things you can do with it!

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VFX Vlog #11 - Premiere After Effects Workflow + 3D Camera Tracker